The first time I burnt out I was 17 and finishing high school. My parents took me out to celebrate my grades, I was top of my school, had performed in plays and musicals, played regional sports and been chair of the sports committee.

I was *that* girl. And there I sat, crying into my pancakes because I was utterly exhausted.

Fast forward and I’d completed five years of university and another five years practicing as a veterinary surgeon.

I had the career I wanted, a great husband and had just got the pay rise I asked for.

I should have been LOVING life. And from the outside it certainly looked like I had my sh*t together.

But I had little idea of just how anxious I was (good old high functioning anxiety), how ridiculously burnt out I was and how disconnected I had become to my body, my health and my truth.

Add to that I was eating what I thought was a ‘healthy’ diet, exercising and practicing yoga, I was the healthy one on the office and yet something was very wrong.

I was only just surviving my stressful (and often heart-breaking) job, I had chronic back pain, i compulsively picked my skin, my menstrual cycle was all over the place and I got so many colds my immune system had basically given up.

Something had to give.

I went to an acupuncturist for my back (bad idea when you’re needle phobic – I was desperate), and it turns out that when you have been eating a zero sugar diet to try and fix your gut and immune system, and then you cry for 40 minutes straight wth a bunch of needles in you, you may faint. Which is exactly what I did for the first (and only) time I’m my life.

I fell into my husband, my thumb ramming up into my nose as I collapsed… I mean it was a wake up call for sure.

I put in my notice and found a part time position eventually leaving my career behind altogether just a few months later.

I became a casual yoga teacher and what do you know… I got worse. I ended up depressed and in a very dark place.

I can’t even begin to tell you how I got out and all of the things that helped me get to where I am today – healthy, content, in control, super connected and living in a state of flow and ease – but I can tell you it’s a long way from where I used to be – stuck in hustle mode thinking that I had to work harder to be appreciated, worthy, respected, blah blah blah.

10 years on a personal growth journey, training and qualifying as a yoga teacher, personal trainer, nutritionist, life coach… starting a gym and yoga studio with my husband Andy, birthing our two babies, moving interstate and starting my professional women’s coaching work…

I feel a massive responsibility to share what I’ve learnt with other women to get them out of the burnout cycle, out of their own heads and into their bodies so they can be healthy, happy and productive too.

I want you to know that it is not your fault that you struggle with your weight, or that you’re anxious or depressed, or that you catch every cold going around, and that you feel stuck on this invisible hamster wheel that involves working your ass off just to please everyone else.

I honestly believe that women are the ones who have the knowledge, the resilience and the compassion to literally change this world for the better…

But we can’t improve the lives of people around us if we aren’t looking after ourselves.

I want women to be more than their health struggles.

If we can change, if we can truly get healthy, then we can heal and influence EVERYONE around us for the better.

Are you with me?!

I hope so!

Come and join me inside the free Facebook group. I share plenty of cool stuff and there are a bunch of wonderful women just like you making transformational changes every day.

It took me 10 years to break free of the life I was in and actually create the life that I wanted.

And I’m here to give you a massive short-cut!

Kelly Moriarty x